“You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.” — Jeremy Young Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Before I began research for this book I was not consciously aware that women were aggressive in indirect ways, that they gossiped… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
I had quite a bit of experience doing things that had been adapted from a book and playing real-life characters and playing… — Ella Purnell Copy Share Image
“Pamela’s prescription was simple: give the summer mornings to Cliff End, then, in September, go full blast at the book. Specious, but… — Dorothy Macardle Copy Share Image
I notice that I only publish once every four years. It takes a couple of years to write a book and then,… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“I thought, men who changed their names were likely to be con-men, criminals, undercover agents or magicians, whereas women who changed their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications;… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze,… — Louis Paul Boon Copy Share Image
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful. — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed… — William Haizlett Copy Share Image
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time. — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period. — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Seth's quote from his book: "And if I only could I'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Umit thought that the books read them. To him it looked as if the books were holding his parents, and reading… — Raj Doctor Copy Share Image
